Country Life UK - March 19, 2025

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The legacy: Radical planter and pioneer Gertrude Jekyll left an indelible mark on 400 gardens around the world, reveals Tiffany Daneff.
Building on a dream: Nicola Taylor tells Tiffany Daneff how she ‘picked up a spade and carried on’ where her father left off in a Northamptonshire wood.

My favourite painting Sir James MacMillan

Le Christ en banlieue (Christ in the suburbs)

2 mins

The legacy Gertrude Jekyll and herbaceous planting

Until Gertrude Jekyll showed us how to plant a flower border brimming with satisfying waves of colour, form and texture, no one had thought to do it.

1 min

Building on a dream

Evenley Wood Garden, Northamptonshire When Nicola Taylor took on her plantsman father's flower-filled woodland, she knew more about horses than trees, but, as Tiffany Daneff discovers, that hasn't stopped her from making a great success of the garden

6 mins

It starts with a seed

Nothing gives as much pleasure in the garden as a plant that you have sown yourself. John Hoyland shows how

3 mins

The ground crew

To get up at first light and work in all weathers are the basic requirements of a head gardener, without whose extensive knowledge none of our great gardens would survive. Christopher Stocks meets the unsung heroes and heroines of horticulture

6 mins

Shocking pinks

For a choice selection of pinks, Tilly Ware recommends the Cornish nursery Calamazag

3 mins

Plants that make me smile

You could put my enduring love of pelargoniums down to a lack of imagination. They were, after all, the pot plants of which I was put in charge on my first day at work in the Yorkshire parks department nursery back in 1964.

3 mins

The architect for me

In the first of two articles, Clive Aslet explores the relationship between Sir Edwin Lutyens and perhaps his most important private client, the politician and financier Reginald McKenna

8 mins

A night on the tiles

From bloody beginnings of drunken mayhem in public houses, it is somewhat surprising that the game of dominoes reached pearl-encrusted heights in our royal palaces

3 mins

United colours of Rolls-Royce

The Ghost is the classic Rolls-Royce, but where does that leave it in a world dominated by electric vehicles and SUVs? Toby Keel gets behind the wheel of a Series II to find out

4 mins

A uniform approach

You’re approaching retirement and no longer have to dress in your work wardrobe each day–so what do you wear? A uniform of your own design

3 mins

The designer's room

Orlando Atty has updated a historic Wiltshire home decorated by Robert Kime 40 years ago

1 min

Take a seat

What makes a chair supremely comfortable? The rake, the suspension system, the frame or the fillings

2 mins

Where to find your own Howards End

Although Edwardian domestic architecture is often associated with London's garden suburbs, here are four country houses of the era, two of which are Thameside

5 mins

Havens and hideaways

Some houses offer that little bit extra– a garden building to enhance your quality of life

2 mins

Sour to the people

Vibrant, tangy and full of flavour, malt vinegar is still the best British condiment to slosh over hot fish and chips

3 mins

A brush with greatness

Victor Hugo found solace in art, but dismissed his drawings as mere things made 'during hours of almost unconscious reverie'. Now, a Royal Academy exhibition reveals how powerfully they engage the imagination

8 mins

Hare's to you

This fast-running herbivore, a stand-in for both witches and the Holy Trinity, has inspired centuries of artists, from medieval monks who made it into a dog-chasing predator to Barry Flanagan's monumental sculptures, as Michael Prodger reveals

6 mins

A stitch in time

An intriguing variety of textiles, including an emerald silk damask woven with flowers, a 16th-century embroidered panel and a Ghanaian kente, star at the Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers' Association Fair

4 mins

Directors take centre stage

The imaginative vision of those behind the scenes brings out the best acting in Shakespeare and Chekhov revivals

4 mins

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